Tell me again about how movies, music, and video games are the - TopicsExpress

Tell me again about how movies, music, and video games are the great enablers and creators of violence and how salvation can be found in religion... No please, I would love to know what movies and video games were being watched and played during the European wars of religion of the 16th and 17th centuries, or earlier, during the Muslim conquests (7th to 19th centuries) and the Christian military excursions against the Muslim conquests, including the Crusades (11th to 13th centuries), the Spanish Reconquista (8th to 15th centuries) and the Ottoman wars in Europe (15th to 19th centuries). Too much history to be a viable excuse in this day and age? My bad, here, explain then the cause for violent conflicts along religious lines that have frequently been conflated with ethnic issues; examples would include the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Insurgency in the North Caucasus, the Nagorno-Karabakh War, the Yugoslav Wars, the War in Darfur, the Syrian civil war or the Nigerian Sharia conflict, among others. Other ongoing conflicts are predominantly motivated by religious extremism, i.e. involving a faction representing radical Islamic Jihadism, among others those in Afghanistan and North-West Pakistan, Iraq, the Maghreb, Yemen, Somalia, and the Philippines. I think you can stop pretending that video games, music, and movies are the cause for violence. They may contribute a sliver of a splinter to the statistics, but clearly the one dominating factor is segregation and religion. Open your hearts and minds wider than the books you use to cover them and maybe we can make some progress in this world!